A Prime Minister resigns 🇳🇿

In a shock announcement on Wednesday, Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand announced her resignation, citing burnout as the main reason.

19 Jan

'I hope in return I leave behind a belief that you can be kind, but strong. Empathetic, but decisive. Optimistic, but focused.'

- Jacinda Ardern

👋 GM! Rallie here, the newsletter bringing you the latest and greatest so you can stay informed. You're the Prime Minister and we're your Press Secretary.

On the menu today:

  • 🇳🇿 Jacinda Ardern resigns

  • 📉 More crypto bankruptcies

  • 🗞️ Noteworthy news

  • 🤓 Refresh: ChatGPT

  • 💯 Top tweets

Why We Rallie

🇳🇿 In a shock announcement on Wednesday, Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand announced her resignation, citing burnout. Ardern has been a role model for women globally, known for her charming yet decisive leadership style and normalizing being a working mom in politics. Here's our fav Jacinda moments:

  • Ardern famously found out she was pregnant six days before becoming the youngest female world leader, and making her New Zealand's first prime minister to be pregnant in office.

  • She also became the first world leader to go on maternity leave, taking six weeks off to be with her newborn, saying, “I am not the first woman to work and have a baby. I know these are special circumstances but there are many women who have done it well before I have."

  • In response to the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, she quickly condemned the attack, banning semi-automatic assault rifles just six days later.

  • She lead the world with her boss response to the Covid-19 pandemic, starting with a strategy of elimination that managed to keep infections & deaths low.

We'll remember Ardern as a remarkable leader with an incredible contribution to women in politics, and we can't wait to see what she does next. Read her full resignation speech here.

The Rallie Recap

📉 Spoiler Alert: More bankruptcy talk in cryptoland.

  • Genesis, the lending firm duking it out with the Winklevoss twins (you can read about that here), may be seeking bankruptcy protection this week as they struggle to raise cash from investors to deal with their debts.

  • This comes after last week's move by the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to charge Gemini and Genesis with selling unregistered products to investors, a warning to crypto exchanges and other platforms to follow the rules or face the law.

  • And unsurprisingly, Genesis' parent company, Digital Currency Group (DCG), suspended quarterly dividend payments to conserve cash, saying they're focusing on “strengthening our balance sheet by reducing operating expenses," in a letter to shareholders. That's company speak for 'it's not looking good.'

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Rallie Refresh: ChatGPT

You might be sick of us singing the praises of ChatGPT... but can't stop, won't stop. Here's 3 ways to use ChatGPT in your everyday work life. 

  1. Organizing your day: ChatGPT is your new personal assistant. Integrate it with your smartphone and watch it handle tasks like scheduling, reminders, auto-emails... the list goes on!

  2. Creating your content: use it to brainstorm and generate written content for all your social media channels.

  3. Upping your Excel game: ask it to create formulas, analyze data, generate charts, make graphs, and automate tasks. Trust us, it's a freak in the spreadsheets.

And FYI - we used ChatGPT to help us create this list. Take it for a test drive here.

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